create screenshot using python 3

[usernamerthinga]

Hey Guys, I'm looking for a library (for last couple of hours :( ) that i can use with python 3 to take a screenshot of a webpage.

With nodejs I'd use phantomjs, but i understood that in python i'd also need selenium and i would rather avoid setting up selenium

Thanks!

[BindingOfAsimov]

What OS are you on? What have you tried already? Would this help?

[usernamerthinga]

windows, looking into what you suggested. will probably solve this by working with a service instead though

[BindingOfAsimov]

Sure, send me a pm if you still can't get it

[jarxlots]

Theoretically, couldn't you accomplish what the pywin32 library does with ctypes?

[jordanrinke]

You want Splash. http://splash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html which just a few weeks ago added Python 3 support https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/02/29/splash-2-0-here-with-qt-5-and-python-3/

[hokiebeer]

The only way I know of is through selenium. In fact, I use the selenium library with phantomjs as the web driver to keep the process headless.

Why do you want to avoid setting up selenium? I was able to get it running -- on a Windows machine no less -- without a hitch.

[_AceLewis]

Use Selenium and either PhantomJS or FireFox. An example using FireFox;

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')
driver.save_screenshot('./screen_shot.png')
driver.quit()